Thinking about changing the title of my blog...
You know, I've been pondering this problem for quite some time. It seems that people get the wrong impression from my blog title. They assume that it is a self appointed label bestowed upon myself by myself, for the purpose of letting everyone know how great I am. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The title was give to me back in April of this year. I was working for a company called Design44 at the time, doing some .NET development work. I was brought on to do some programming, cleaning up one website. Within a few days, the guy in charge of development decided development wasn't for him anymore, and left me holding the bag on a huge project. Overnight, I became the sole architect, manager, coder, and documenter. The project I was a huge project consisting of 5 fairly large subprojects. They all had to be finished in a month. And the problem was, the requirements kept changing on a daily basis, not because of technological problems, not because of client's wants, but because the guy running the show would build requirements based on how he felt that day. I was 2 hours away from being done 4 times and he completely changed the requirements on me, usually to what I told him to do in the first place.
So I was juggling all this, and typically working 5-7 hours at work, and another 6-10 hours at home, every day. During that 4 month time span, I hardly did any Interscape stuff. I put my whole life into this project. So, My office was in the corner. I typically don't like to work under bright flourescent lights, and there was nothing on the walls, so I'd keep the lights turned off. I'd sit in my recliner, and code all day. It came about, that it started getting called the Batcave. Then one day, I wore a blue shirt to work. On the front, it had a Superman-looking red and yellow “RHA” on it, which stood for the Residential Housing Association for Arizona State University. So I walked in, and my boss said, “Look, BoyWonder.NET is here. Are you off to the Batcave?” We all had a good laugh, and the name kinda stuck. And to a degree, I feel that I have earned it. I was called a boy wonder all throughout school. I don't let it go to my ego, I shrug it off.
So here is my problem. It gets totally misunderstood, so I think I should change it. The only problem with that is, it will mess up links from other blogs to mine, aggregators, and most importantly, Google. I've been watching my referrer logs lately, and I've noticed that people are coming to my site from very interesting places indeed. And staying here, reading what I have to say. My blog is part of an overall brand that I'm trying to build, and changing it now could have some serious repercussions. I know what I think, what do you think?